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Microsoft Clipchamp
- bitwize 4y agoCan they bring back Clippy as a mascot for this? Or maybe McZee?
- dreadlordbone 4y agoWhat a name. I get they were going for "cute" but they could have come up with something better and a little easier to say.
- troymc 4y agoThe software was named by the company which developed it: Clipchamp Pty Ltd was founded in 2013 and was acquired by Microsoft in 2021. More details: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clipchamp-pty-ltd https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clipchamp-pty-ltd
- _8j50 4y agoSuch a Microsofty name, I am a bit confused about ther relationship with Microsoft given the title of the post and MS logo at the bottom of the page.
- mplewis9z 4y agoLinked from their "About us" page: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/08/microsoft-acquires-video-creation-and-editing-software-maker-clipchamp/ https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/08/microsoft-acquires-video-c...
- quickthrower2 4y agoLook at their jobs page - backend tech is moving from python to c#. Makes sense why now.
- eurleif 4y agohttps://clipchamp.com/en/terms/ https://clipchamp.com/en/terms/ says: >Clipchamp Pty Ltd (ACN 162516556), a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation
- michaelje 4y agoFounded in Brisbane. Acquired by MS about a year ago.
- louisstow 4y agoThis was originally a startup in Brisbane that was acquired, not a Microsoft name.
- quickthrower2 4y agoHN title needs editing.
- notRobot 4y agoNot necessarily. It does belong to MS now.
- quickthrower2 4y agoYes saw a sister comment with a link that says that even though the main link doesn’t.
- notRobot 4y agoMain link does, see footer.
- collegeburner 4y agoanybody used this? i still have found 0 software that beats the ease of use, discoverability, simplicity, power and overall ux of Capcut and that's mobile. tbh i'd prefer desktop if i could find it so this could be cool.
- jaflo 4y agoCapCut has a desktop version! I have not tried it myself so no idea how good it is: https://www.capcut.com/ https://www.capcut.com/
- collegeburner 4y agooh cool, didn't know this, thanks!
- foobarbecue 4y agoRequires an account? Sigh.
- therein 4y agoDoes it in the app? Microsoft Store does have that dark pattern of looking like it wants you to sign in but then downloading the application anyway when you press cancel. Edit: Oh wow it is a packaged "web-app". I see. That's unfortunate.
- Sqwandery 4y agoWhy is this a download if it's a web app?
- FractalParadigm 4y agoI used this software (the app version) a couple weeks ago for the first time. I grabbed a great clip while playing a game and wanted to show it to a friend, but I didn't want to send the full 500MB 60s video when the clip was only ~6 seconds. I didn't want to spend a ton of time downloading proper editing software so I gave it a shot. It's a little clunky if I'm honest, it feels like an evolution of Windows Movie Maker; it works in a pinch, just don't expect anything professional to come out of it.
- sitzkrieg 4y agoi have similar use cases, avidemux is a small free program and it excels in this trimming scenario. if you dont change video output settings (copy) it will trim in a few seconds, no rendering or transcoding
- leduyquang753 4y agoThe feature only snaps to the nearest keyframe though.
- formerly_proven 4y agoVideo game recordings are normally not terribly long gop (couple seconds) because the scenery isn't static enough for that anyway.
- Jaruzel 4y agoOn Windows 10 (not sure about win 11) there is now a built in app called Video Editor, which seems like an evolution of Movie Maker.
- jeroenhd 4y agoI usually use the Xbox app that's probably preinstalled on your Windows computer anyway; it's built to integrate with the game bar and can cut videos quite easily. For this reason, and the fact that Windows already ships a clip editor, I'm not sure what Microsoft is planning to do with this. Maybe they'll replace the built in editor at some point?
- BuckRogers 4y agoI’ve used this but the existing Microsoft video editor is better. I even set up an account and everything for Clip champ. It may be better for short videos, clips. But in general I feel like Microsoft is existing free video editor is the way to go. I use it a lot. One huge difference between the two is that Clip champ is very slow in encoding your videos. Microsoft video editor will use all your cores or GPU acceleration. Whichever you prefer. I’ve noticed I get better results with CPU encoding. But Clip champ doesn’t even offer that and it’s very slow.
- jarym 4y agoFor a moment I thought they were bringing back Clippy
- SturgeonsLaw 4y agoEven Microsoft couldn't be THAT evil
- eternityforest 4y agoIs clippy necessarily evil? I mean we have the floating action button in some apps, clippy just provided FAB like functionality with some personality. Then again, the FAB is pretty horrendous too most of the time, so maybe it's not the best way. But I think in some very limited cases it could be a good way to provide shortcuts that bypass huge stacks of menus. Modern apps have gone in a more lightweight direction though so maybe we just don't need that.
- scoopertrooper 4y agoWhen people call Clippy evil, it's not because of his role as an assistant for Microsoft products. Rather, they're referring to his later actions in running several cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes. It was really a tragic fall.
- eternityforest 4y agoWell, desperation can drive people to all kinds or things, especially if they are ignorant of the consequences. If he still had a job, and had better AI, perhaps he wouldn't have turned to crime?
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- rchaud 4y agoStick to Davinci Resolve, OpenShot or other options that don't require creating yet another login.
- laundermaf 4y agoDavinci Resolve is $300 and OpenShotnis probably disorienting for a lot of new entry users. Clipchamp seems easy enough for most amateurs. It’s great to have a completely free watermark-free alternative from Microsoft. Of course it can’t provide all the features.
- alxlu 4y agoDaVinci Resolve has a free version
- sorenjan 4y agoDavinci Resolve is available as a very complete free version. Or rather, Davinci Resolve is free, Davinci Resolve Studio costs money.
- jansommer 4y agoI use OpenShot a lot and it was really easy to get started and easy to use. It tends to crash now and then, so save often.
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- emptysongglass 4y agoDoes Resolve support integrated graphics?
- nreece 4y agoThere's also a nice and light video editor built-into Windows Photos app (which is now prompting to install Clipchamp). It's pretty good for short clips.
- maxpert 4y agoDisclaimer: Final Cut user here, so I will be extremely biased. While parts of UI are ripoff from Final Cut. I still found it to be pretty basic. Won’t be using it and I doubt other professionals will. Nevertheless can be good tool for free usage and meme makers. It still unlocks a sizable market for Microsoft.
- laundermaf 4y agoComparing this to FCP is a cheap swing. Obviously this is meant as an iMovie/MovieMaker alternative, not for professionals.
- h0l0cube 4y agoGreat for Windows users, but is there something like ‘Canva for marketing/explainer videos’ but online/Mac?
- matteblack 4y agoThis is fully web based. It works online and on Macs
- h0l0cube 4y agoIt says ‘for Windows PC’ quite prominently right throughout its copy on the landing page. Does no one else see that? Or have a missed a web option hiding on the page? Edit: The link is for some reason pointing to the PC version. Anyway, I tried it on MacOS Chrome, but it says my browser is unsupported (and to get Chrome or Edge... ?)
- seydor 4y agoi use windows movie maker. It still exists, you can download it as binary and it's a pretty quick video editor with lots of options. I was unable to figure out the new win10 editor or chipchamp
- prox 4y agoKdenlive is pretty decent on windows if you need a bit more control.
- stjohnswarts 4y agothis is what I use. Should be more than enough for amateur or home movies and basic effects.
- zbird 4y agoThe first review on the Microsoft Store should be featured on the home page: "Found this during a search for the word "clip." The app's description is dishonest, to say the least. This is not an app. It's a wrapper for an unidentified website. As soon as I opened the "app", it asked for personally identifiable information. The wrapper makes impossible to verify the site's digital certificate. It was suspicious, to say the least. The description says it is a Microsoft product, but don't fall for it. In the past, malicious apps under false identity has slipped into the Store. Either it is not a Microsoft app or Microsoft has fallen shockingly low."
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- Meph504 4y agoA rather simple utility that for some reason requires a login, I see no value in that when there are so many analogs that don't.
- UweSchmidt 4y agoWhat's your favorite alternative?
- byecomputer 4y agohiring a courtroom artist to depict my lame parties
- RunSet 4y agoVirtualdub
- dvtrn 4y agoNow that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. Is it still under development? Back in my teens I was really wanting to get into 3D animation and virtualdub was one of the first tools I used to create reels since the free modeling and rigging tool I used at the time didn’t have any editing capabilities.
- folmar 4y agoIt seems that not very much, but this is a lot of the case of finished software: it's good for its job. The author is not gone though, there is a blog post from a year ago.
- mhb 4y agoDaVinci Resolve
- BuckRogers 4y agoMicrosoft Video Editor. It’s simple and fast, and comes with Windows. Unless I were a Youtuber I stop there because there’s no subscription.
- keepquestioning 4y agoDoes this work on Wine?
- kuratkull 4y agoFirefox users are asked to please stay away: It looks like your browser is not supported To use Clipchamp, make sure you're using the latest version of Google Chrome, or the latest Microsoft Edge
- te_chris 4y agoSo sick of sites doing this. Labelbox even does it! Absolutely absurd.
- tluyben2 4y agoSame for safari indeed.
- dspillett 4y agoNot supporting Safari is understandable for personal/toy project because you can't as easily test Safari without buying some Apple kit – whereas I can run Firefox, Chromium based browsers, and so forth, on my existing PCs and phones, in VMs if I want to check different OSs for odd differences. Not good from though for, as in this case, something from MS. And I don't block Safari, I just consider it a third class citizen when it comes to what little time I have to give for support.
- aendruk 4y agoI went down the rabbit hole of trying to connect to iOS Safari’s web inspector from my Linux machine last week. From the trail of activity on GitHub it looks like it might have been possible during about 2015–2020 but the open source adapter has since been effectively abandoned, with too few people doing the necessary ongoing maintenance. I spent a while trying to do it myself but it requires a deeper understanding of WebKit and Chromium internals than I possess.
- stnvh 4y agoUsing Firefox with the user agent changed to chrome seems to get around this
- bjano 4y agoFor people who don't want to sign up but still like the idea of a video editor running in a browser (that doesn't upload anything), I am working on an alternative: https://vidmix.app https://vidmix.app
- stjohnswarts 4y agothanks. I don't think I should have to log in to type a document or edit a video. :/ Thank you!
- sorenjan 4y ago> Your browser has limited support for this webapp. Please use the latest Chrome or Edge for better performance, stability, and more features. Using Firefox 105. What features are bad or missing in Firefox, and do you know if Mozilla is working on fixing them?
- bjano 4y agoWebCodecs is missing. They say it's "worth prototyping" [1] but I don't know whether they are working on it. 1: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/
- krono 4y agoAs I understand it, Web Codecs is quite a ways away from being a web standard - it is currently just a draft[1] for a recommendation for a possible future standard. Just beware of any major API changes or any indication that it might be dropped in its entirety! [1]:https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/ https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/
- BuckRogers 4y agoStuff like that and late AV1[0] are one reason I moved to Edge after 19 years on Firefox. More so just that I was impressed with Edge when I tried it. Brave also stood out to me when I tested every browser. It’s fast but has the distinction of being the only semi-major browser that’s fully open source other than Firefox. Edge is still very good, I would say it’s the best browser going but I’d be tarred and feathered for that. [0]https://www.androidpolice.com/mozilla-is-finally-adding-av1-support-to-firefox-a-full-two-years-after-chrome-and-edge/ https://www.androidpolice.com/mozilla-is-finally-adding-av1-...
- nix23 4y agoJust look at that Windows mess (ehh 'base' install) from the Site: https://images.ctfassets.net/b4k16c7lw5ut/95VgtrEkyNEPkTKQ0r7Q5/cb5f9ebcd1361b431b62d442b07067d0/Launcher1.PNG?w=1920&h=1347&q=50&fm=webp https://images.ctfassets.net/b4k16c7lw5ut/95VgtrEkyNEPkTKQ0r... Candy Crush and McAfee....really Microsoft??
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoAlso Paint3D which no one used ever? They just completely stopped caring and anyone who has an idea for a quick buck or markering stunt seems to be allowed to put their shit into Windows or slap the Microsoft logo on it.
- fzfaa 4y agoThat's literally the experience that you get when you buy a new computer with Windows.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoAnd when that screenshot was taken, it did not actually finish downloading all the adware yet. Normally at the end of a (non-business) Windows install you have around 6 adware programs, depending on the region. Disney+, multiple "games", etc.
- londons_explore 4y agoHow many times on that landing page do they mention "Windows PC"? Eleven times! We got the message! It looks like they're trying to resist "Great software, but can you release a Mac version"?
- nguyenkien 4y agoThat was a landing page for Windows version, what do you expect?. Here is home page: https://clipchamp.com/ https://clipchamp.com/
- w4rh4wk5 4y agoWhat?! Even the paid tier only allows 1080p max? What am I missing here?
- EwanG 4y agoPaid tier includes "free" access to their stock (Storyblocks) media. It is somewhat cheaper to get a Storyblocks video subscription through Clipchamp than through Storyblocks themselves. I presume at some point 4K will be added, but given that YouTube metrics show that 4k media is still very niche (1080p is something like 85% of viewing), I can see why that might not be top of mind for this.
- marczellm 4y agoI have a very, very slow connection particularly for upload. Releasing a desktop "app" which wraps a website for video editing of all things... Feels like a spit in the face.
- trog 4y agoI have been wondering for years I'd this product is ffmpeg transpiled into JavaScript so it can run in the browser. It feels like there might be a nice open source opportunity here if so, although I imagine they've spent most of the last few years dealing with all the edge cases that make this work.
- Kwpolska 4y agoThat page’s really weird. Also, since when is the start menu called the “Windows launcher”‽
- nailer 4y agoCan it do video screen capture? It’s a hassle to show stuff to people using windows.
- kamma4434 4y agoIs it only me or does the title’s color scheme hurt the eyes?
- dav1app 4y agoI ditched Clipchamp in favour of Flixier. It is 10 times better. It is usable on other platforms, allows both video and audio processing (including features missing on Clipchamp, like audio eq and green screen processing). I am no associated with Flixier in any form but a customer.
- bloqs 4y ago$30 a month just to export at full resolution and $15 a month to export at 1080p, free only allows 720p. (Yearly sub gives 20% discount) Unfortunately, I could totally get behind throttling export speed or maybe the other stuff but it's just very neutered
- preommr 4y agoIt's $8 for me, the yearly sub is a 42% discount. Even at $15, that's pretty fair given that it's a tool that someone is going to use for their job or at least an involved hobby.
- mlukaszek 4y agoI swear a god, when I read the name I though MS have released a game featuring Clippy as the main character. Must be getting old, I guess. :-)
- MattRix 4y agoThe name probably comes from Twitch culture, the idea of a “clipchamp” being someone who cut a clip of a stream in just the right way (often intentionally cutting out context to make a moment more funny). The opposite is a “clipchimp”, when a clip is cut poorly.
- fzfaa 4y ago>Clipchamp is created worldwide, but we're headquartered in Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia, on the traditional lands of the Turrbal and Yuggera Peoples. >We acknowledge the traditional custodians of country, and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Imagine these levels of guilt.
- MattRix 4y agoWhat’s the problem with it? Seems like a nice gesture. Land acknowledgments are quite common these days.
- unstatusthequo 4y agoI saw the headline and hoped it was a multi type clipboard history app for Windows. Sadly nope.
- xgad 4y agoAs someone who has also worked on an in-browser video editor before, I do tip my hat to the developers working on Clipchamp. I think it's one of the better implemented products in this space considering that the memory-intensive process of encoding videos has not traditionally scaled very well into the browser. That being said, I'll probably still be sticking to something like iMovie or Resolve for more basic video editing since native NLEs are still way more performant overall (and they're free to use).
- solarkraft 4y agoWhat the hell is "Windows PC" and why does it want me to download a web app?
- solarkraft 4y agoOh, the link is weird. The start page is a lot less incoherent: https://clipchamp.com https://clipchamp.com
- robd003 4y agoAre there any good open source video editors? I've been holding my breath on VLMC for over a decade now...
- folmar 4y agoCinelerra and OpenShot for a start.